About the Author

Paul Mutton is a PhD student at the University of Kent in the United Kingdom, frantically trying to finish off his thesis at the same time as writing this book. He previously graduated with first-class honors in Computer Science, winning the IEE Institution Prize for being the best overall student in his department. He uses Internet Relay Chat (IRC) to collaborate with researchers in other countries and to talk to people in his office when they have their headphones on. In his remaining spare time, he uses his Sun Certified Java Programmer skills to develop all sorts of open source software on his personal web site (http://www.jibble.org). Some of his research has culminated in the creation of the popular PieSpy application (http://www.jibble.org/piespy), which infers and visualizes social networks on IRC and even appeared on slashdot once. He can normally be found jibbling around in #jibble and #irchacks on the freenode IRC network with the nickname Jibbler, or Paul on smaller networks.